Posted on 03/26/2015 1:07:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Wall Street Journal recently published a strange piece called “Why Cable TV Beats the Internet, For Now.” Despite pay-TV losing 1.4 million customers last year, it seems the WSJ is device-challenged and unwilling to embrace the obvious future dominance of Internet streaming media. And the war to discount your cost for pay-TV is heating up.
Geoffrey A. Fowler of the WSJ’s Person Tech section describes himself as a “tech columnist and someone who watches enough TV to own a Snuggie.” He acknowledges that cord-cutting allows cheaper choices than pay-TV, but strangely he worries that “Internet TV means juggling gadgets.”
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Just wait until their bills start reflecting lost revenue from the Roku users who used to subsidize them.
Why wouldn't I? I love basketball.
Trust me, you are resisting change
Well, you'll just have explain to me how I a) watch all my intra-state teams without stealing or going to a bar almost every night and b) how I retain the ability to flip around from channel-to-channel or sport-to-sport to watch all that I would like.
No cable, no TV, no problems.
Haven’t paid attention to the NBA since the 80s. Someone will note it was bad then.
Talk show gal here said that she and family went to Nuggets game; it was horrible.
That’s OK. I cut the cord on the Journal nearly two decades ago when the annual subscription price went to hundreds of dollars. Now I just evade the online paywall for free.
I watch any sports event free at VIPLeague.com.
I can watch any cable channel free at TVPC.com.
Just have ad blocker.
Are all the apps on Roku subscription based? $7 for netflix, $7 for Hulu..etc...it all adds up.
I looked at Sling. Lowest package includes CNN. That ended that interest.
How about cell phone bill cutting!...........
We did and got NFL Sunday Ticket!.................for a year..........
Apparently they have a lot of double-secret probation discounts that their reps can employ if they get a caller on the line who says they want to cancel. I called and told them someone else had offered me a bundled deal and they dropped my bill around 22% without even flinching.
Of course I am in town with other options. If you are in the boonies and must rely on a dish, they probably do a quick check of their GPS and determine this.
VIPLeague doesn’t load. Is that the correct address?
Yeah, using VIPLeague for any Nascar I watch. And MLB only costs $19 a year to listen to. Ok without the rest of it.
I don’t blame you. I don’t use Sling anyways. I have a local Fox station on Roku and between CBSN, Skynews, CNN International and Israel24, you don’t miss much. The achieved newscasts are a big plus over regular TV too.
Yes, but it beats over $100 per month and I don’t watch that much tv to begin with.
I heard you can get a proxy IP address to fool the blackout rules.
Don’t get me wrong. I loved Dish service and would recommend them......we’re just broke like a lot of people. :)
Heavens no. There is more free content than you could watch in a lifetime, a great deal of which is from quality providers like Conde Nast, Nat Geo, Discovery Channel / History, H2 etc. Apple TV has its adherents but Roku is the leader, with over 1000 'official' channels and even more 'private' (beta) channels, etc.
Go to youtube and search the term Unsupported App Store. This is used in conjunction with Plex Media Server for even more choices via Roku client for Plex. You will be astounded.
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